While I take your point and understand your frustration, you've violated the most fundamental canon of journalistic ethics by extracting a passage from a publication which you've represented as a quote?but a quote which you've modified.

Your gratuitous addition of the president's middle name is a point I do not take to at all: bigotry is not welcome here.

> Dear List Member,
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> Barrack Hussein Obama has added another 1.8 million acres of land to the his running total of 265 million acres that are now completely off limits to mineral hunting of any sort which includes meteorites.
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> Highlights:
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> "With his second term winding down, Barrack Hussein Obama has now protected more than 265 million acres of land and water, more than any other administration. A year ago, Obama designated much of the Angeles National Forest as the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument."
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> "Concern over the long-term health of the deceptively delicate terrain spurred Obama to designate the Mojave Trails, Sand to Snow and Castle Mountains monuments under the 1906 Antiquities Act, which authorizes presidents to create national monuments on federal land to protect "objects of historic and scientific interest."
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> Link to article:
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> http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-monuments-20160212-story.html>
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